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Arthur Edward Youngs
British Army 8th Btn. Norfolk Regiment
from:Norwich
(d.19th Jul 1916)
My great uncle Arthur Edward Youngs of the 8th Battalion Norfolk Regiment was killed in action at Deville Wood on 19th of July 1916 aged 22. His place of burial is stated as unknown.
One of 7 children of Edward Joseph Matthew Youngs and Martha Ann Curtis, his younger brother, Matthew George, was also fighting in the Somme and was killed at High Wood 4 days later, aged 20. Their mother never recovered from this loss. Following the sudden death of her husband in 1919, she became mentally unhinged and spent the last years of her life in a mental institution. She died in 1938.
